James Arrowsmith, Publisher and Erector of a Certain Notorious Statue

I almost never see my surname mentioned in history, so it was a bit of a surprise to be reading down a Twitter thread about the Colston statue in Bristol to find out who had been responsible for erecting it - a local publisher called James Arrowsmith!
JW Arrowsmith Ltd. was the company responsible for publishing famous works like Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Nobody and Rupert of Hentzau. James was a friend of WG Grace. The company also published a lot of books on Bristol history.
And James was almost single-handedly responsible for the erection of the statue to Edward Colston, which he tried at first to fund by subscription. With a lot of effort, the committee eventually managed to raise only half of the cost of the statue, but it was put up anyway, and unveiled on "Colston Day", a local public holiday.
In 1920, Arrowsmith published a book on Edward Colston by HJ Wilkins, which detailed Colston's involvement with the Royal Africa Company, which transported slaves to the Americas. Colston was the Deputy Governor of the company.